Motivational Quotes

Lies and lying

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

- Rowland, Helen

Best Quotes about Lies and lying

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Beecher, Lyman

When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

Feather, William

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

Hoffer, Eric

If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.

Traven, B.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence. A man may have sat in a room for hours and not opened his mouth, and yet come out of that room a disloyal friend or a vile calumniator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

Twain, Mark

The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it.

Antrim, Minna

Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

France, Anatole

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

Canetti, Elias

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If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world.

Epictetus

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A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on.

Watt, James

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I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

Cocteau, Jean

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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

Mencken, H. L.

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You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.

Thatcher, Margaret

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The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive.

Frost, Robert

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Whoever is detected in a shameful fraud is ever after not believed even if they speak the truth.

Phaedrus

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Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

Steiner, George

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Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically -- for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist -- but then what isn t?

Crisp, Quentin

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When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!

Bernanos, Georges

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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato

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If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Haig, Alexander

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It is easier to gather up a bag of loose feathers than to round up or head off a single lie.

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If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it.

Franklin, Billy Boy

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The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

Wilde, Oscar

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When a man lies, he murders some part of the world.

Merlin

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Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN don't call me insane. I don't want to be dead but all beautiful colors bleed to red

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I detest the man who hides one thing in the depth of his heart and speaks forth another.

Homer

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No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Ruskin, John

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It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.

Aristotle

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I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.

Twain, Mark

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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Churchill, Winston

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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Wilde, Oscar

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The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade.

Byron, Lord

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Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Rowland, Helen

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.